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It is amazing to believe that with just two different models of their smartphone available, Apple was able to take over two thirds of the profits from smartphone sales in the second quarter among the top companies around the world. The news was released by Strategy Analytics just after the company announced that they believed at all with the smart phone vendor in the lead in terms of volume around the world. It is clear that Apple’s unlocked iphone 4 is the number one Smart phone company around the world, but a number of other countries are following closely behind.

Four of the eight major vendors of smart devices around the world were profitable during the second quarter of this year. Apple’s other profit share jumped from 50% during the second half of last year to a total of 57% in the first quarter of 2011, oh the way to 66.3% during the second quarter of this year. To say the least, it will be interesting to see if they are able to continue this upward trend and profit.

Apple’s iphone 4 unlocked receiving two thirds of the profit share for the quarter is something that you definitely probably saw coming, but not at the margin in which we saw. The company continues to grow their revenue, profits and has a huge amount of money sitting around waiting to be spent; you can bet that the company will continue to find ways to increase their overall profit. Other companies in their proper share from the previous quarter include Samsung at 15% and HTC at 11% up nearly 6% from the previous quarter. With these three companies being on top of things in almost every major editorial, you can bet that we could see some heavily aggressive behavior from them in the future. Apple appears to be in a spot where they could pull away and given their current state, in large amount of capital that they have on hand.

Virgin Mobile will now be allowing users to get the first month of their coverage free. this is the first time that they have offered this service to users, and should increase their user base by quite a bit. The company also opened their flagship Virgin store on Queen Street in Toronto, and as a result are giving some great deals on a number of recently released devices including the HTC Incredible S and unlocked Samsung Galaxy S II 4G.

The ability to get a free first month only comes when users sign up for the $20 plan, and they will not have to pay for their plan until the second month. These users will have to sign up for a three-year plan that will consist of $20 or more with a credit for the first month. The company has said that this deal will only be lasting for a limited amount of time, and is not currently announced the end date for the promotional deal.

This is some pretty good savings for users that are looking to sign up with Virgin Mobile, and shows that the company is really looking to bring in new users quickly with the restructuring of their retail business. It will be interesting to see if they offer any additional promotions in the future. They’ve been doing a good job of ensuring that they are able to garner new business through lowered rates and an extreme amount of press that they have received over the course of the last few weeks with the opening of their flagship tour in Toronto. The company has made it very clear that they are aggressively lowering their rates and expanding moving forward, and these types of deals will definitely help them to do so. It is good to see that they are offering these deals and are aggressively lowering their rates for users.

The Facebook application is notorious for the various bugs and problems that it has undergone since its release. It is regarded as one of the buggiest mainstream and large applications out there on the market. The official application for both unlocked iPhone 4 and Windows phone operating systems will be receiving an update here in the very near future. It will be bumped up to version 3.4.4 and will continue to correct many of the errors that users have complained about for quite some time. One of the biggest issues that it is going to fix is the issue and bugs that surrounded the send button for comments, chat and messages. Many users have reported that the chat section have received a lot of bad feedback, with messages getting deleted and messages not ever sending even though the application stated that they had been sent.

The company also announced that the application will no longer randomly crash on iPhone users. This is a bug that has been around for quite some time and it is a bit surprising that they have not fixed it as of yet. The Windows forms version of the application will receive an update to version 2.1, and will fix one of the larger issues that have been associated with the application, an issue that dealt with accessing the picture albums of friends through the cell phone such as unlocked HTC 7 Surround.

It is interesting that they choose now is the time to update. And it’s been regarded as one of the largest issues throughout its release, in Facebook has been one of the most complained about applications on the market. It will be interesting to see this update fixes all of the known issues that have been out there for some time, or if he continues to create problems and additional bugs in the application.

The HTC Status his opponent has received a lot of attention over the course of the last few months. Unlocking the phone is something that is bound to be very popular in the future, and will allow the unlocking community to have a number of very interesting uses. The device geared toward Facebook fans, and is being marketed as a phone that is strictly for users of Facebook. The HTC Status will knock her users to quickly update their Facebook by providing a button that is specifically for accessing the Facebook website.

The Facebook button will allow users to president sent them directly to a blank wall post, where they can update their status instantly. The Facebook button can also be programmed to perform other tasks, which makes it very useful to users of Facebook. Any of the test program to the button after the Facebook associated, which should make the phone a very popular option for habitual users of the social network.

The device only has a 2.6 inch HP EGA touches screen display, but does have a full keyboard. Make it a little bit difficult to read some smaller text, but other than the small display is a very solid phone overall. It’ll run on the Android 2.3 gingerbread operating system, which has become so popular in recent years. The unlocked HTC Status is also one of the first to be focused strictly around a specific social network, and should allow for users to have a very interesting experience overall. Perhaps if this phone is successful, it will lead to a social networking component will have buttons for all Facebook, twitter, and perhaps Google+ in the future if the social network continues to grow. Watching the progress of this device will be very interesting as it could be a telltale sign of the future for social networking driven mobile devices.

The FBI has now rated the homes of three different hackers from a group known as anonymous. These hackers were located in the New York City area, and the news was first reported by Fox News. a total of more than 10 FBI agents were able to get into the house of Giordani Jordan, who is located in the Baldwin, New York area. The FBI agents reportedly to release one laptop from the premises, and have suspected that Jordan is part of a plan to launch a denial of service attack against a number of different firms including both MasterCard and Visa. It is not currently clear how they were able to track the events to him, but you can bet that more arrests will be coming in the following days. The police are also reportedly searching homes are located in Long Island and Brooklyn areas.

The hackers are all reportedly in their late teens, and early 20s, and have been acting for the group of anonymous for the last few years. As of right now, it is unclear if the hackers that were rated R. part of the group Lulzsec, a group that has been responsible for hacking a number of huge firms over the course of the last few months including both Sony, the U.S. Senate website, as well as the CIA.

It will be interesting to see what kind of charges is handed down of any evidence; it was part of these attacks. And for more individuals to be rated in the coming days, with possible attacks coming from the group in response.

If the FBI is able to find evidence of the hacking, you can expect them to make it publicly known quickly. They want to quickly bring down the threat of further attacks from the screw, a group that consists of many anonymous members that never reveal their identity.

Spotify is a popular streaming music service that has continued to grow in popularity throughout Europe over the course of the last few months. Now, the company is planning to launch their service in the United States as early as next week. The company announced at an earlier time that they were looking to expand their service to the United States, but gave no indication of when this change might occur. The company has been gaining popularity in Europe, throughout several different countries over the course of the last few years and has grown into the largest streaming music service abroad. Now, with other large companies including Apple’s unlocked iphone 4, Google, and Amazon launching cloud-based music services, it looks to be the perfect time for Spotify expand to the United States.

As a start up in Stockholm, Spotify was able to quickly grow their user base by promoting the streaming service to young kids in high schools and kids in college. As of right now, Spotify already has deals linked with three of the four major US record labels, which means that they should be able to release with a solid catalog of music that will keep new user streaming in. This will allow for users to create playlists from their favorite artists, without charge, using a free model that utilizes ad supported content.

It is assumed that Spotify will also offer an option that will allow users to pay a small monthly in order to be able to stream their music catalog without the use of apps. It will be interesting to see if Spotify finds the same success in America that they have found overseas countries. The company has not yet revealed their pricing structure for users in the US market, a expected to be comparable to other companies that have released the pricing structure or their streaming cloud-based music services.

LightSquared, a company that has had problem with GPS interference for their GPS devices such unlocked Motorola Atrix, Samsung Infuse, etc.. is now creating the rural America initiative. The company promises that their new initiative will be more of a help and it will be a hindrance. You’re going back to take another look at their 4G LTE service, that is already signed up alongside a number of partners. The company is looking to increase the coverage of rural American areas with their GPS devices. The company is known for creating GPS devices that look to limit the amount of pesticides that are accidentally sprayed in crops throughout rural America. Because of recent GPS interference glitches, the company has had a very hard time controlling the spread of pesticides, a promise that the company made many small farm owners.

Along with the guidelines that the company has proposed, they are looking to assist emergency first responders if the existing communication lines for some reason are not working. LightSquared is not the first company to have to deal with the flaws of moving to a broadband adoption, issues are known to constantly arise in areas that are underserved in terms of coverage. This can be very difficult, especially when these areas are relying on a broadband connection for vital emergency services.

It is good to see that the company is looking for ways to fix the problems that they have run into over the course of the last few weeks. The GPS interference problems seem to be fixed, and unlocked cell phone users Such as unlocked iphone, HTC Evo, etc.. have not reported in recent issues with their coverage. It is also good to see that the company is taking initiative, and looking for ways that they can have backup plans in place in case further outages arise. This information was released in an official press statement from where.

According to a number of recent reports, Microsoft is now asking that Samsung pay $15 licensing fee for every Android smart phone that it makes. Yes, you heard that right. They are asking for a $15 licensing fee for every Android phone that Samsung makes. The Redmond based company said that it believed that the software patents that they currently home will cover the technology that is used in Samsung’s Android devices such as unlocked Samsung Galaxy S II. According to the history on the present subject, it looks as though Microsoft will be getting its way.

It was just last year that HTC was forced to sign an agreement that would allow for them to pay a total of $15 per device based on the patents that Microsoft already owns such as unlocked HTC 7 Surround. It expects that Samsung will return an offering for a total of $10 for each device that it creates, but the upper hand is definitely on Microsoft’s side in this case since the company also had a number of lawsuits recently with Apple, and the fact that Microsoft has teamed up with Facebook to combat the new Google social network, it appears as if every company is fighting each other on a different front. Apple has also attacked Samsung claiming that they copycat devices that they say also infringes on the patents that they have. Since they have been constantly tied up in these battles, this one seems most definitely favor Microsoft over any other organization. It will be interesting to see if they reach some sort of pre-determined amount in court, or if they come to an agreement before that. It is clear that if Microsoft takes the court that they will win, and will probably reach a similar agreement to the agreement that was reached with HTC just last year. It will be interesting to see if Microsoft also continues to target other companies that are using their patented technology in the future.

The company Huawei has now announced their brand-new MediaTab tablet. The new tablet will run on the Android 3.2 operating system, which is also known as honeycomb. It will be a 7 inch tablet provided by Huawei, a company that has been looking to get into the tablet industry for quite some time. The MediaTab will have a 1.2 GHz dual core processor, along with a nice five megapixel camera at the back of the device, accompanied by a 1.3 megapixel camera at the front of the device that will support video chats, and other great features that should make it one of the premier tablets released in recent memory.

Along with the previously mentioned features you can also look forward to a top-of-the-line WiFi network technology, and HDM I out output that will allow for you to play the tablet screen on other displays including your television set, a micro-SD card slot that will allow you to add up to 32 GB of additional storage, expanding the functionality of the device as a whole. The Huawei media pad is one that has been highly anticipated by users for quite some time, and the specs that we have seen so far seem to deliver on the demands and expectations of their customers. The device will supposedly have an excellent battery life that will be much longer than most of the tablets that are currently out there on the market. At the very least, they are expected to deliver more than six hours of battery life and all. The MediaTab is expected to launch for the first time for consumer purchases this fall.

So far the company has not indicated what the price for the tablet will be. It is expected, that the device will be relatively low-priced in an effort to make it affordable to the average user. Huawei is a company that has been teeming with American companies in recent times to expand their reach to North America, even though they are already quite a popular company throughout Asia for their excellent contributions to both the mobile phone market as well as the smart device market as a whole. This will be their first tablet they have released and a lot is expected out of the Huawei MediaTab.

The unlocked HTC (Sensation 4G) is a device that has received a lot of attention as of late and for a good reason - it is one of the better devices that T-Mobile has ever had available on their platform. The features are impressive, the specs may even surpass the features, and it is quick with almost zero noticeable lag. To say the least, it is a device that can compete with any smart phone that has been released in recent memory. Featuring the dual core Snapdragon processor and a dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2, it packs a punch to remember.

The design and look of the device is great. It is surprisingly lightweight, and features two LED flashes along with 1080p Hd video capturing technology. The front facing camera on the device allows for video chat, which seems to come standard on most devices today. The phone is thin, and can fit into a pocket comfortably without issue.

It runs on the new Sense 3.0 user interface. Normally, user interfaces provided by companies are subpar, but Sense is ahead of the pack and runs on top of the Android operating system, providing a unique experience that is great for the phone. The phone has made some interesting changes to the way that browsing is done, but for the most part the device is the same in terms of usability. ‘

The battery life of the phone is much better than previous HTC releases such as HTC Google Nexus One unlocked, HD7, etc.., and it boasts the longest battery life of any HTC release at this time. It is an amazing device, and although they could have shaved off some weight and allowed for the Snapdragon processor to keep up with the 1 GHz dual core Tegra 2, it runs seamlessly without lag or hiccups for the most part.